Pharmaceutical Technology-06-02-2008

Antibody drug conjugates offer a niche opportunity in drug development and contract manufacturing.

Comparative-effectiveness analysis aims to promote appropriate pharmaceutical spending.

Customers complaining lead to some serious explaining.

Brief pharmaceutical news items for June 2008.

The author provides an overview of key regulatory issues facing companies seeking to market their biopharmaceutical agents globally.

Risk management, and its benefits for patients, plays a big role at the PDA Annual Meeting.

Creating a kinder, gentler manufacturing process that doesn't kill the product is the goal of process developers doing large-scale cell culture for cell therapy.

Editors' Picks of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Innovations

New products for sterile filling, quality control, and anticounterfeiting measures gained notice.

Nanoparticle-based systems present many advantages for the delivery of current and emerging biological drugs.

Global manufacturing excellence will be a game changer for CMOs that can achieve it.

With rising drug deveopment costs and burdensome clinical trials, Indian-based firms are transferring their research departments to other entities in hopes of saving cash, mitigating risk, and ultimately, buying back the rewards.

The authors focus on how single-use systems effectively control three potential sources of common contamination: cross contamination, microbial contamination and biologic contamination of the process facility.

Letting the public inside the drug development process may increase their faith in what we do.

Although the spotlight is now on nanoparticulate delivery for biologicals, other strategies have proven successful.

The authors demonstrate that anecdotal reports of prednisone tablet variability are inaccurate.

The good, the bad, and the ugly about direct-to-consumer advertising.

Scientists are uncovering signaling systems that operate via cannabinoid messenger molecules.

An ambitious survey of characterization techniques presents current information.